Microsoft releases Windows 10 Build 21332 but removes a big new feature from it

For Insiders on the Dev Channel, Wednesday is the day when they are most likely to see a new Windows 10 build arrive.

Today’s new flight, Build 21332, introduces a number of changes and improvements but also takes away one big new feature -- the 'News and interests' experience on the Windows taskbar. Don’t panic through, this is only a temporary move.

Microsoft explains:

Over the last two months, we’ve been trying out several variations of the news and interests experience on the Windows taskbar. We have received a lot of great feedback from Windows Insiders and as a result, have landed on what we believe to be the best experience for customers. The news and interests flyout experience will now show two columns of content, making it easy to quickly glance over your feed of weather, headlines, money, and more. By default, it will open via hover or click. Based on your feedback, we will also be introducing an option to only open via click in a coming update. As a result of these changes, we’re resetting the roll out of news and interests to Insiders in the Dev Channel. This means that Insiders who previously had news and interests enabled on their taskbars may see it go away. Don’t worry, we hope to make news and interests available to everyone in the Dev Channel soon!

It is important to reiterate that by gradually rolling out features to Insiders like this, it really helps us quickly identify issues that may impact performance and reliability.

Other changes and improvements include:

• Microsoft’s new option to paste as plain text from clipboard history (WIN + V) is now rolling out to all Insiders in the Dev Channel.
• Theme-aware splash screens have been re-enabled for everyone in the Dev Channel with this build.
• 3D Viewer and Paint 3D will no longer be preinstalled on clean installs of the latest Insider Preview builds. Both apps will still be available in the Store and will stay on your device after an OS update. So, if you upgraded your PC like normal, you shouldn’t see these apps changed in your  app list.
• Due to increasingly low usage, Math Input Panel is being removed. However, the input control and math recognition engine that powered the app is remaining as an optional feature titled "Math Recognizer" which can be installed via Settings > Apps > Apps & features and clicking "Optional features". So, while the app itself will no longer be there, the features it enabled for math equation input in OneNote, Excel, and elsewhere, will continue to work and developers can continue to utilize the input control.

Fixes are:

• Fixed an issue where Surface Pro X devices would bugcheck when resuming from sleep.
• Fixed an issue where devices were experiencing hangs when Xbox controller were connected while shutting down, restarting, or entering sleep in recent Dev Channel builds.
• Fixed an issue leading to the About page of Settings not being present in the previous flight.
• Fixed an issue where the OS Info link on the Windows Update Settings page did not work.
• Fixed an issue resulting in some Settings search results unexpectedly being missing in recent flights.
• Fixed an issue where if you go to Settings > System > Power & Sleep it would crash Settings for some Insiders.
• Fixed an issue where the status information was not being displayed under Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update when you were up to date.
• Fixed an issue where the Chinese text for the lunar calendar in the clock and calendar flyout was not displaying properly in recent flights.
• Fixed an issue where it was unexpectedly possible to scroll the quick actions area of the Action Center when the region was collapsed.
• Fixed a bug affecting GPU Compute support in the Windows Subsystem for Linux. See this GitHub issue for reference.
• Fixed an issue where clipboard history might not update to display the latest entries.
• Fixed an issue where launching an app would dismiss the touch keyboard even though you’d used the taskbar button to manually invoke it.
• Fixed an issue resulting in gifs (via the touch keyboard or emoji panel) unexpectedly being inserted as a single image in certain apps.
• Fixed an issue where when using search to insert the red heart emoji from the touch keyboard or emoji panel, in certain apps upon insertion it would unexpectedly appear black, despite the app supporting colored emoji.
• Fixed an issue where when using the new dark mode for the Pinyin IME displayed tips would be unreadable due to having black text.
• Fixed an issue when typing with certain IMEs where Narrator wouldn’t announce when you expanded or collapsed the displayed information in the candidate window.
• Fixed an issue where certain TV tuners no longer were no longer working.
• Fixed an issue that could result in your PC bugchecking when renaming a file or folder on an SD card.
• Fixed an issue where devices running Trend Micro software may randomly bugcheck.
• An issue has been fixed where devices with Bitdefender installed experienced a black screen and/or explorer.exe crashes. Resolving the issue requires an update to the Bitdefender software.

Known issues include

• Microsoft is looking into reports of the update process hanging for extended periods of time when attempting to install a new build.
• Live previews for pinned sites aren’t enabled for all Insiders yet, so you may see a grey window when hovering over the thumbnail in the taskbar. Microsoft is continuing to work on polishing this experience.
• Microsoft is working on enabling the new taskbar experience for existing pinned sites. In the meantime, you can unpin the site from the taskbar, remove it from the edge://apps page, and then re-pin the site.
• [News and interests] Microsoft is addressing an issue where news and interests may not be available when signing into Windows without internet access but returns when online.
• [News and interests] Sometimes the news and interests flyout cannot be dismissed with pen.
• [ARM64] Insiders who installed the preview version of the Qualcomm Adreno graphics driver on the Surface Pro X may experience reduced brightness of the display. This issue is fixed with an updated version of the preview graphics driver at https://aka.ms/x64previewdriverprox. If you are experiencing this issue, please see the feedback collection for more information.
• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) users who upgrade to this build will be unable to use the GPU Compute feature. Microsoft is working on a fix for this. Users who do a clean install will not be affected.
• Microsoft is working on a fix for an issue where some devices with Realtek network adapters running driver version 1.0.0.4 may experience intermittent loss of network connectivity.
• Microsoft is investigating an issue where on some high-refresh-rate monitors, games will only run at 60Hz. Variable-refresh-rate monitor scenarios may also result in tearing.
• The network flyout on the login screen doesn’t open on this build, which will prevent you from connecting to a new network before logging in. If your account is in a state that requires internet to log in, you can work around the issue by plugging in Ethernet, getting the device in range of a previously configured Wi-Fi network, or logging in with any other available account first.
• Microsoft is working on a fix to address a DWM memory leak that was introduced in the previous flight.

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